Grafana Image Renderer repository URI seems wrong

Grafana
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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
root@netmon:~# dpkg -l grafana
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                     Version                   Architecture              Description
+++-========================================-=========================-=========================-======================================================================================
ii  grafana                                  8.1.7                     amd64                     Grafana
root@netmon:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic
  • What are you trying to achieve?

Install the Grafana Image Renderer plug-in

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

Run as standalone Node.js application

The following example describes how to build and run the remote HTTP rendering service as a standalone Node.js application and configure Grafana appropriately.

  1. Clone the Grafana image renderer plugin Git repository.
  • What happened?
root@netmon:~# git clone https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-image-renderer
Cloning into 'grafana-image-renderer'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-image-renderer/': The requested URL returned error: 403
  • What did you expect to happen?

I expected the link to point to a git repository. There is no mention of a git repository anywhere on that page, so the implication is that https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-image-renderer/ (which the text Grafana image renderer plugin links to) is in fact, the git repository.

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?

See above.

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.

No errors seen in the UI or logs, just the CLI because clearly, the URI I was told to clone using git is not a git repository.

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
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I might also add, the instructions to use Docker instead; the example docker-compose.yml looks badly mangled as it’s devoid of all indentation. YAML is not JSON and leading whitespace matters.

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Work-around for now:

  1. Install Docker
  2. Run docker run --log-driver syslog --detach --name grafana-image-renderer --restart=always --publish 127.0.0.1:8081:8081 grafana/grafana-image-renderer:latest
  3. Update grafana.ini with the following changes:
    • ensure http_addr up the top of the file is blank (I had this previously set to 127.0.0.1 to bind it to the loopback device, but now we need a container to reach it at 172.17.0.1 as well)
    • use these settings for the renderer:
      [rendering]
server_url = http://localhost:8081/render
callback_url = http://172.17.0.1:3000/

That now works. I’d prefer to just have NodeJS on the VM running the renderer instead of a container, but at least now instead of this:
image

I get an actual image:
image

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